it-crowd-unexpected-reboot
Official Tumblr blog for The Grant: An IT Crowd Fanfiction AND Release date T.B.D.: Unexpected Reboot
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the it department
Please do! And send the links to my submission box so I can share them.
reblog if you’re okay with people writing fanfics of your fanfics and/or fanfics inspired by your fanfics
https://archiveofourown.org/works/65439340
wrote a roy/moss fic. in my mind, these guys would never get together anyway or admit to anything in canon, but if they did, it would be weird and contrived and maybe something like this.
moss would like vocaloid NOPE IM NOT TAKING ANY CRITICISM the time period is right, the show is set from 2006-2013. perfect time for vocaloid. he likes vocaloid. dont need it to make sense, its just true.
havent watched the IT crowd all day havent watched it since last night what am i gonna do ive been busy ill watch it tonight but i have stuff to do until 10 and i need to sleep but i wont sleep i have to watch the IT crowd
This scene is everything to me…
Other IT crowd fan art
Can't believe he bikes to work every day. Seventy miles.
do you guys know about richard ayoade's stupid idiot loser folding bicycle
Actually kind of in love with this little pixel art I made of Imogene...very much captures her essence. I love the 2010s hipster look she has going on, even if it's a little anachronistic. In 7 more years she could be a nerdfighter.
made on makepixelart.com
maurice moss stimboard!!
(blue theme)
i finally made one!! this is mostly for me but it would be wonderful if other people liked it too!! it’s not perfect but i thought it was silly :3
credits under the cut!!
the moss gif was made by me, and the moss sleeping meme was too.
i’m just gonna link all of the places i got these gifs, some are ones i didn’t use but ones i downloaded i’ll just link them all!!
some it crowd doodles i had lying around my gallery :p
(the third jen drawing is the first time i ever drew her so the artstyle is VERY different..)
can you tell who my favourite character is yet
Moss: Not before I flush the toilet, thank you very much.
(small splash)
Meet my IT Crowd OC! Name: Imogene Prendergast Height: 135 lbs Weight: 5’4” Eye colour: Brown Age: 26 Occupation: Field Services Engineer for Prophecy Electronics Likes: Windows XP, Doctor Who, Alien, the Hainish Cycle, Metroid Prime, 10,000 Maniacs Dislikes: Windows Vista, The Fifth Element, Grand Theft Auto, any & all sports, going outside Looking for: There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don’t.
icon credits: @spreadicons @sugar-violence faceclaim: mary elizabeth winstead
As you may know the Data Bill is currently going through UK parliament, and Conservative amendment would force agencies to record sex/gender as birth sex only. As if this doesn't go far enough to humiliate and discriminate against trans and intersex people, this amendment would also require all state agencies (DVLA, Passport Office, etc) to revert and purge all sex data that doesn't correspond to sex at birth within 12 months. This would mean that trans people with corrected documents could see these being voided and replaced, leaving them open to being outed, discriminated against, and in many cases, putting their lives at risk. T*rf organisations like S*x Matters have already mobilised and are encouraging their flying monkeys...I mean supporters to email their MPs about this bill. While it is unlikely that it will go through (Nadia Whittome received assurances that it will be voted down by the government), the support it receives has a high chance of encouraging Labour to put a similar amendment through in the future. We need to show that we stand together as a community against this. It's probably safe to say that almost everyone here knows and loves a trans and/or intersex person, or in fact is a trans and/or intersex person. Rights are at risk. We can't just say we love and support our trans siblings, we need to take action. Write to your MP and tell them why this bill is wrong and that trans people MUST be protected and supported.
Please do not be rude to your MP or send them verbal abuse (even if it's tempting). This is not the time for that. Use clear, polite and firm language to make your point. As a community, we must be mindful of how we approach this, as lives are at stake. While you are writing about this issue, please also consider mentioning the detrimental effect the Supreme Court ruling has had. Many trans people find themselves banned from public bathrooms all together as organisations struggle to meet the unrealistic aims of the EHRC. On the 6th of May 1933, the Nazis looted the Institute of Sexology. Do not let them do this in 2025.
More information: https://www.reddit.com/r/LabourUK/comments/1kd4s9m/shadow_technology_minister_adds_amendment_to_data/ Find and write to your MP: https://www.writetothem.com/
Making a playlist because i feel like Moss has a little birdhouse in his soul. This is what I have so far
Send recommendations to my submit box! Preferably nothing pre-2007 (I like to be period accurate)
So hey ummm my birthday is coming up
Our most popular tee this year
This girl is an actual hero and we need to donate to her defense fund please
You better not be stupidly sad pixel roy trenneman when i get there
No IT Crowd fanart? Fine, I’ll do it myself
OG image I found off of Pinterest
Update #2: A New Outlining Method, Dropdown Plotter
I've been having a hard time conceptualizing how to plan out a novel lately. It used to come so easy to me. Now that I'm a real adult, it feels like there isn't enough space in my brain anymore for me to have my story all in my head without writing my ideas down somewhere.
So, good outlining methods, which can be hard to come by, are crucial for my writing process.
But, a lot of traditional methods don't work for me.
In my opinion, it's extremely important to have an outlining method that doesn't overwhelm you, and which feels creatively freeing. And when do I need to be more creatively free, than when writing an IT Crowd fanfiction?
So I've come up with a new outlining method that I'd love to share with you all! I call it Dropdown Plotter.
Dropdown Plotter uses the dropdown menu feature, which can be found in both Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel, to help you better visualize (and, most importantly, easily reorganize) the major aspects of each chapter of your story.
Basically, it's a spreadsheet that includes, at minimum, 8 columns.
Chapter Title
Plotlines
Included Character(s)
Perspective Character(s)
Location(s)
Chapter Story Description
Writing Stage
Due Date
Why keep track of these things? Balance. Basically, making sure your characters, plotlines, POVs, and important locations all get adequate page time.
It's a lot easier to conceptualize these things when you have it on a color-coded spreadsheet, zoomed out really far, and can see in a big picture way. For example, you might see that the red color indicating "Legolas" is in a scene, drops off after Chapter 17. You might see that the green-coded plot about his missing shoe is only important for 5 chapters in the middle of the story, or that we're spending almost the entire story in the bathroom and never in the evil lair.
So, how do you use the Dropdown Plotter?
First, you go into the dropdown menu, and you can see all the plots you've selected. There's a handy "search feature" for those writing the next Game of Thrones. You want to click the little pencil icon in the bottom right, which is the "edit" button.
On the right-hand side of your screen, a column will pop up called "Data Validation Rules." From here, you can edit the names and colors of each item in the dropdown menu, and add or delete things as you'd like.
Make sure to click "allow multiple selections" on the bottom of the data validation rules pop-up. This will allow you to select multiple characters, multiple locations, and multiple plots when you're in the dropdown menus.
Don't forget to click "Done" at the bottom!
On top of the dropdown menus, the nice thing about working in a spreadsheet is that you can always drag and drop the rows and columns. This makes it extremely easy to change the order of scenes around, in a way that feels very impermanent and easy.
Here is what my Dropdown Plotter looked like for the first three chapters of The Grant: An IT Crowd Fanfiction.
Looks pretty, right? And pretty outlines build confidence! Not only that, but what I like most about this outlining method is that it encourages me to be less precious with my ideas.
It's way less intimidating to overhaul major aspects of your story, such as the dominant POV, the main plot, etc., when all you have to do is click a little button in the dropdown menu to change everything. When I'm editing a little blurb in a spreadsheet versus an entire step outline, it reminds me that no writing problem is insurmountable, and nothing is ever really set in stone.
Again, it builds confidence.
Unfortunately, I've only built a Dropdown Plotter in Google Sheets, but I've provided a blank version to share with you all. The nice thing about spreadsheets is that you can add and delete things as you see fit. For example, some people might want to add...
More columns indicating multiple scenes within the same chapter!
A "Story Beat" column, to mark the specific plot beats each chapter follows (as in the Hero's Journey or the Blake Snyder Beat Sheet).
An "Important Info" column, to mark any worldbuilding or character details discussed or introduced in a certain chapter.
Literally anything your little heart desires!
Happy outlining and I hope you enjoy the Dropdown Plotter!
Update #1: Outlining
I'm a screenwriter all of a sudden so the whole last few years I've spent outlining before I start everything. That's just kinda the standard in that field of writing.
But I'm trying to be a lot more loosey-goosey with this one. I'm doing three act structure, some rough outlines of chapters, and filling in the blanks as I go. Talking it out with other people who know the show & who don't mind spoilers for the ending has been great in getting me to whittle myself down to a logline, midpoint, and ending. But I'm restricting it to that! After I have all my chapters roughly in mind it'll be go time.
And yeah, outlining is great, but it also kind of encourages you to get in your own head about stuff. It can be really overwhelming having all these details you want and feel like you need to incorporate. Which is why it's important to remember that you're meant to be writing, after all, not just letting the wheels spin. If they spin too fast they'll fall off. Put the damn car on the road and write!
A lot of times the best details are the friends we write along the way.
If you can’t think of anything to say about a fic, writers also like to know:
- what time it is
- how long you’ve been reading
- how many chapters you’ve covered in the last 24 hours
- what you were late for because you were reading
- the woeful few hours you have left to sleep
- the emotional outbreaks you’re experiencing
- the inappropriate place you’re having said outbreak
- the general public’s reaction to your outbreak
- how much phone battery you have left
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remembering this for the future
what people flagrantly misunderstand about culturally iconic ‘logicians’ like spock and sherlock holmes is that they are fuckinggggg annoying. like you canNOT write for nor adapt either of these characters properly without understanding that they are admirable in many ways, yes, but they are repeatedly and gleefully, ON PURPOSE, fucking massive nuisances to literally every sane individual around them, all the time. they love bothering people, they LOVE it, it makes them SO HAPPY, and THAT, not their brilliance, is what makes them the best. spocks a BITCH
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